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Old 02-21-2011, 08:51 PM
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If the problem is this big it wont get fixed for a while. This is because when you have to debug something you cant just take away a huge piece of code that just makes it ten times worse. they have to find the specific piece of code down to the smallest piece they can and remove it let me put it to you in an example so you can see how they have to remove bugs. First of lets say there is a program that has to do 10 things and it crashes so they have to find the code but it is extremely hard to find it out of tons of code so they have to make a small program to see were it stopped working so lets say it did things 1-7 right so the bug is in 8 9 or 10. so then its still really hard to find it and after hours or days they find it is on 9. So after that they need to find the specific piece of information that doesn't work and once they found it they are not done. Finally they need to recreate the bug in a test environment and if they cant its not the bug so they have to go back and look at things 8 9 or 10 . Sadly they are dealing with hundreds of functions so it will take them a lot of time to find the bug without causing more damage. Sorry if I got kinda boring or if I started to rant on.